Editing Camarillo, California (section)

===19th century===
{{stack|[[File:Adolfo Camarillo on a Camarillo White Horse.png|thumb|upright|Camarillo is named after [[Californio]] brothers [[Adolfo Camarillo]] (pictured) and [[Juan Camarillo Jr.]], who founded the city on their [[Rancho Calleguas]].]]}}
By the early 1820s, Mexico had gained independence from Spain, and shortly afterward California allied itself with Mexico. The Mexican land grant system was liberalized in 1824, resulting in many large grants in California and the proliferation of Ranchos north of the border. One grant to José Pedro Ruiz created [[Rancho Calleguas]] in 1837, in the area that is now Camarillo. The grant was later sold to Juan Camarillo, who had arrived in 1834 as a member of the [[Híjar-Padrés colony]];<ref name="Lees pastoral region insert page 4">{{cite news |title=What's in a name? The cities of the region |first=Hermine |last=Lees |date=February 5, 2010 |url=http://www.the-tidings.com/2010/020510/sbcities.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128235450/http://the-tidings.com/2010/020510/sbcities.htm |archive-date=November 28, 2010 |access-date=December 19, 2014 |newspaper=[[The Tidings (newspaper)|The Tidings]] | publisher = [[Archdiocese of Los Angeles]] | location = Los Angeles | page = pastoral region insert page 4}}</ref> his sons, Adolfo and Juan, began developing a ranch on the Pleasant Valley area of the vast fertile Oxnard Plain.